Acapulco ’66 Coupe – Full Restoration

We have a coupe which is owned by a fellow blogger and customer of ours for a couple of years now. He has been working on projects on the car until it was getting to the point of a nice new paint job. We picked the car up for him and brought it down for a look. We had a conversation where a few parts needed doing underneath that he knew about. To do the job properly we decided to start from the ground up – so we told him “everything you have done – take it all off, that’s the wire loom, body parts everything”. It sounds like a lot of wasted work, but we know the parts taken off the car all fit. The parts taken off will be cleaned up away from the car and put back together after the paint. This is a journey that the owner wants to be a part of and on this particular occasion we agreed that we would help him out. You can see his previous work on his blog called – http://onemanandhismustang.com

Delivery of the car to us at here.

arrival

initial look inside

Initial once over on the ramps by the guys.

inspection time

The new resting place for the Coupe in our panel and jig work shop

Some of the work going on to get her back to a shell

engine fitting

removed

Front glass

rear glass

steering rack

steering box

steering column

With the car stripped down to nothing we were able to attach the car to our rotisserie in order to see what she is really like underneath.

Update: 5/4/2014

The start of the removal of the under seal from the car, along with tar, and anything else that goes with it.